Definition of beat

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Beat (v. i.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison..

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Drub :: Drub (v. t.) To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel.
Beaten :: Beaten (a.) Exhausted; tired out.
Beater :: Beater (n.) One who, or that which, beats..
Retreat :: Retreat (n.) A signal given in the army or navy, by the beat of a drum or the sounding of trumpet or bugle, at sunset (when the roll is called), or for retiring from action..
Forge :: Forge (n.) To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal..
Belam :: Belam (v. t.) To beat or bang.
Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do..
Gamboge :: Gamboge (n.) A concrete juice, or gum resin, produced by several species of trees in Siam, Ceylon, and Malabar. It is brought in masses, or cylindrical rolls, from Cambodia, or Cambogia, -- whence its name. The best kind is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beatiful reddish yellow. Taking internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic..
Quash :: Quash (v. t.) To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush..
Pant :: Pant (v. i.) To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart..
Rataplan :: Rataplan (n.) The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse..
Lather :: Lather (v. t.) To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog..
Tremolo :: Tremolo (n.) A certain contrivance in an organ, which causes the notes to sound with rapid pulses or beats, producing a tremulous effect; -- called also tremolant, and tremulant..
Smite :: Smite (v. i.) To strike; to collide; to beat.
Against :: Against (prep.) From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof..
Browbeaten :: Browbeaten (p. p.) of Browbea.
Protonotary :: Protonotary (n.) Formerly, one who had the charge of writing the acts of the martyrs, and the circumstances of their death; now, one of twelve persons, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications..
Buddhism :: Buddhism (n.) The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, the awakened or enlightened, in the sixth century b. c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvana) as the greatest
Oryx :: Oryx (n.) A genus of African antelopes which includes the gemsbok, the leucoryx, the bisa antelope (O. beisa), and the beatrix antelope (O. beatrix) of Arabia..
Trip :: Trip (n.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward..
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